Abstract

OLIVEIRA, Albertina Lima de  and  AMARAL, Marco Antônio Franco do. Stories and memories of EJA students in brazilian and portuguese universities after 1974. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2020, vol.19, n.1, pp.56-70.  Epub Mar 30, 2020. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v19n1-2020-6.

The Portuguese and Brazilian policies of democratization in education have led to, albeit discreetly, a growth in the number of students from Youth and Adult Education (EJA) in undergraduate courses of public education institutions. In order to perform a historical mapping of the socio-demographic profiles of adult students who graduated in Pedagogy at the Federal Institute of Goiano (Instituto Federal Goiano), or Educational Sciences at the University of Coimbra, a study was conducted using semi-structured interviews with former students of these courses. With the help of narratives and methodological support of oral history, it was found that they had fragile education pathways, most of them work, are married and have been away from school for many years. Whereas Brazilian students revealed that they felt motivated to attend higher education in the hope of redefining their line of work, Portuguese students, on the other hand, showed strong motivation to pursue personal fulfillment

Keywords : Youth and Adult Education; Instituto Federal Goiano; Coimbra University.

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